Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedonia.

Battle of CrannonAthensMacedonia (ancient kingdom)

Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.

MajorianStafforaRicimer

The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.

Avars (Carpathians)SlavsSiege of Constantinople (626)

Stephen III begins his reign as Catholic Pope.

Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.

Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor

Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence.

Florence CathedralFlorence

The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River.

House of ViscontiRepublic of VenicePo (river)

The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.

Ming dynastyMilitary history of China before 1911Rebellion of Cao QinZhengtong Emperor

Battle of Guinegate, French troops of King Louis XI were defeated by the Burgundians led by Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg.

Battle of Guinegate (1479)Louis XI

The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

BrigantineLe GriffonRené-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La SalleNiagara RiverGreat Lakes

The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy.

Battle of GangutRussian Navy

George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.

George WashingtonBadge of Military MeritPurple Heart

The United States Department of War is established.

United States Department of War

American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.

Miami peopleBattle of KenapacomaquaLogansport, IndianaNorthwest Indian War

U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

President of the United StatesMilitia Acts of 1792Whiskey RebellionWestern Pennsylvania

Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.

Simón BolívarBattle of Boyacá

The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.

Australian rules footballMelbourne Grammar

The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester, England.

Openshaw CitadelManchester

Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.

Anna MånsdotterYngsjö murder

Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.

Alice Huyler RamseyNew York CitySan Francisco

The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.

Peace BridgeFort Erie, OntarioBuffalo, New York

The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.

LynchingMarion, IndianaThomas Shipp and Abram Smith

The Simele massacre: The Iraqi government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele.

Simele massacrePolitics of IraqSimele massacreAssyrian peopleSimele

The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.

Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp

World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.

World War IIAlsace-Lorraine

World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.

Guadalcanal CampaignUnited States Marine CorpsGuadalcanalBattle of Tulagi and Gavutu-TanambogoSolomon Islands

IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).

IBMCalculatorHarvard Mark I

The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.

Soviet UnionTurkeyTurkish StraitsTurkish Straits crisis

Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

Thor HeyerdahlOchroma pyramidaleKon-TikiReefRaroia

The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).

Municipal Corporation of Greater MumbaiBrihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport